Today, readers comment on ways to combat a rising road toll, welcome electric car manufacturing to Adelaide, back calls for councillors to register contact with developers, and reminisce about a lost Port Adelaide.

The old adage ‘beatings will continue until morale has improved’ has never motivated anyone to be better.

‘Tougher laws’…good grief Charlie Brown. What is the point of tougher laws if SAPOL don’t have the resources to be on the roads policing the laws?

Bring back a dedicated road patrol unit of bikes and cars, marked and unmarked, 24/7. The infringement notices issued would ensure the unit is self-funding.

How about using technology and the ocean of entrepreneurs to create a device that must be attached to every vehicle and can be scanned by SAPOL patrolling officers and AI, providing an instant dashboard read out of vehicle speed past and present, registration and owner details. No device and you’re off the road.

Big brother? Yes. More power I say to big brother and big sister on our roads.

Let’s hope the ‘crisis forum’ individual participants will think very differently to what is obviously not working now. – Steve Harrison

Old Port is nearly gone

My great-great-grandfather, William Knapman, came to Port Misery in the 1840s and built the Cannon Brewery just along the river from Shed 26.

My family lived nearby and I learnt to swim in the river at Ethelton in 1957. Four generations of my family sailed and fished the river and my grandfather Bert built clinker motor boats and put their engines near Shed 26.

This beautiful saw-tooth shed is a sacred object and should be restored and preserved, just as has happened throughout the world where a sense of history and heritage has prevailed against the hollow men who promise new things.

We stand on the shoulders of those who went before us and it is important that we acknowledge that through our actions in the present.

Let’s not destroy any more of the Old Port. – Steve Knapman

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